At last, the windows and the front door have been installed and the building can be locked up at the end of the day. Now we have a new Westnedge key to go with the original Westnedge keys we kept as souvenirs. This is what the front looked like on Wednesday during the installation:
The windows and front doors were installed on Wednesday. That same day the excavator also put in a dry well on either side of the garage, and our brick layer was hard at work prepping the outside walls to put up the stone. So many things were happening at once that it’s just easier to put all the pictures into a gallery!
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- digging the hole
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- lowering the base of the dry well
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- the parts of the dry well must be guided into place by hand
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- Whee! This is how you get out of the hole!
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- lowering in another piece
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- moving one of the big cement segments
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- filling the surrounding area with stones to aid in drainage
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- the partially-finished dry well
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- adding the top piece
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- the pieces of glass for the windows, carefully stacked
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- the installers prepare to move a piece of glass
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- moving a pane of glass
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- carefully putting the pane into place
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- adding a pane to the corner of the office
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- the front entrance during the glass install
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- Tim working on prepping the outside wall
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- Ben putting up a coat of mortar
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- Ben and Tim working together on a piece of mesh
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- sewer lines going in on Friday
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- putting the finishing touches on the dry well on Friday
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- the completed dry well
Now that the building can be secured, more work can be done inside with less concern for materials being stolen.
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